refugee studies

Applications are invited for this year’s International Summer School in Forced Migration, to be held at Wadham College, Oxford. The Summer School, now in its 21^st year,offers an intensive, interdisciplinary and participative approach to the study of forced migration. It aims to enable people working with refugees and other forced migrants to examine critically the forces and institutions that dominate the world of the displaced.

The Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) Student Caucus is pleased to announce that the Annual Student Conference will take place on April 8^th and 9^that York University, Toronto, Canada. This event offers Graduate and Undergraduate Students across disciplines and those with a keen interest in migration and refugee issues the opportunity to present and discuss their research ideas with fellow students, academics, professional, frontline practitioners, researchers and all those interested in forced migration issues.

Why study forced migration?

Conflict and displacement remain intractable problems in the contemporary world. The number of refugees under UNHCR’s responsibility rose from 9.9 to 11.4 million by the end of 2007, while the global number of people affected by conflict-induced internal displacement increased from 24.4 to 26 million. Whether asylum seekers or refugees, stateless or internally displaced people, the figures represent women, children and men who have been forcibly uprooted from their homes by war, persecution, and extreme poverty.

The Summer Course on Refugee and Forced Migration Issues is an internationally acclaimed eight-day course for academic and field-based practitioners working in the area of forced migration. The course involves a rigorous schedule of lectures, panel discussions, and a simulation exercise. It draws from academic and field-based experts for its faculty and, reflecting the Centre’s mission, serves as a hub for researchers, students, service providers and policy makers to share information and ideas.

The Program